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Since theorists of literature often draw on a very heterogeneous tradition of Continental philosophy and the philosophy of language, any classification of their approaches is only an approximation.

Most theorists, even among those listed below, combine methods from more than one of these approaches (for instance, the deconstructive approach of Paul de Man drew on a long tradition of close reading pioneered by the New Critics, and de Man was trained in the European hermeneutic tradition).

By the early 1990s, the popularity of "theory" as a subject of interest by itself was declining slightly (along with job openings for pure "theorists") even as the texts of literary theory were incorporated into the study of almost all literature.

Guitar Theorist is a professional level guitar chord, scale, interval, and note computation program, that adapts to string detunings, and placement of a capo.

As a musical thinker, however, and theorist of new musical possibilities, he is a giant in a virtual desert, towering above all his contemporaries with the possible exception of Schoenberg (and at present, Cowell's speculations look to be more prophetic and enduring than Schoenberg's, whose influence is no longer in the ascendant).

A highly regarded writer, lecturer, researcher and teacher, Sister Roy is a professor and nurse theorist at the Boston College School of Nursing.

The theorist's work must demonstrate a level of mastery of the theory within which s/he is working to give them the legitimacy within their theoretical circle.

Good theorists develop skills at demonstrating the centrality of particular assumptions to the viability of a theory.

Because a theory is a perspective, a good theorist must understand how to explain that theory to those who have not mastered its vocabulary and strategies.

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The Logic Theorist(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

The program succeeded in proving thirty-eight of the first fifty-two theorems presented there, but much more importantly, the program found a proof for one theorem which was more elegant than the one provided by Russell and Whitehead.

Newell, Shaw, and Simon attempted to publish their results in a short article, listing the Logic Theorist as a co-author, but the Journal of Symbolic Logic was evidently unwilling to publish a paper cowritten by a machine.

This focus on emergent behavior and reducing areas of human intelligence to formal logic systems led directly to most of AI research for the next fifteen to twenty years.

The Gate: Conspiracy Theorist O.C.C.(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

The Conspiracy Theorist O.C.C. is a person who has devoted all of his or her life to seeking answers to life's mysteries.

One weakness of the typical conspiracy theorist is a tendency to seek highly complex answers when simple ones are available.

For example, a fire breaking out at a theorist's home will almost always be seen as the result of government sabotage to prevent further meddling...even if the theorist's house had faulty wiring and big boxes of newspaper and greasy rags in the basement.

What such an attempt will show is that Cowell, typical of his early 20th-century generation, placed the bulk of his theoretical emphasis on materials - new dissonances, new rhythms, new notations - rather than on form, systems, or larger aesthetic issues.

Whether a composer starts out reading it (and it should be required reading for undergraduate composers at every university in America) or discovers it further on down the road, the book stands as a monumental guidepost pointing the way to fascinating new territories of musical experience....

He came into a world not nearly prepared for his far-reaching musical vision, and he realized that, to bring that vision about, it was not enough to simply compose the music.

I almost bought a book by him at Borders yesterday but it was hardcover so it was like $50.

You don't have to construct theoretical polities to be a political theorist, I don't think you have any sort of grasp on that concept.

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Amazon.co.uk: Books: The Accidental Theorist and Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science (Penguin Business Library)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

When economics and ideology mix, the results often sound plausible, but in fact can be terribly wrong and lead to ill-conceived and sometimes dangerous economic policy.

For several years, Paul Krugman, author of The Accidental Theorist and one of the most celebrated economists of the 1990s, has been punching holes in fashionable ideas such as the logic of supply-side economics and the evils of globalisation.

The Accidental Theorist is a collection of Krugman's best published and unpublished essays that cover everything from the Asian financial crisis to inflation in America.

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Political theorist at opensource encyclopedia(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

Richard Wolin, author of The Seduction of Unreason: THe Intelllectual Romance with Fascism, From Nietzsche to Postmodernism.

-- Susan Okin, a feminist political theorist whose work focused on the exclusion of women from western political thought, died at her home in Lincoln.

Machiaveli) was the earliest great political theorist, whose work is still controversial...

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The Wing Nut's Revenge - A conspiracy theorist has his day in court. By Dahlia Lithwick(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

Allan J. Favish—an obsessive California conspiracy theorist who's been trying to get his hands on death-scene photographs of former Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster for almost a decade—is like every other zealot intent on arguing his own case before the high court: He's more interested in hogging the spotlight than in his legal claims.

Scalia presses Hamilton on one of the documents cited as proof of the cover-up, the so-called "Haut Report" in which Favish claims the word "neck" was whited out by conspirators and replaced with the word "head" to cover-up the fact that Foster was shot in the neck, and didn't kill himself.

Scalia, never afraid to call a wing nut a wing nut, tells Hamilton: "What he and other conspiracy theorists would say is that the fact that there were five investigations only shows the extent of the conspiracy."

Ok so this theory is going to sound far-fetched and it's not researched nearly enough for me to be allowed to post here, but here it goes any way.

Maybe my answer wasn't to clear on this, but the main thing of what I meant to say is that we die because all our energy is gone, including the energy supporting our brain.

Thanks JG Yes I have been thinking about his for a long time, long before the show came on the air, it came along with the questioning of belief's and the whole reincarnation thing...And I do believe that the energy must go somewhere also.

It is not only this administration that has made you feel like a conspiracy theorist.

My focus was on the "makes me feel like a nutbar conspiracy theorist” part of the quote and not on the "this administration" part.

It is the public health establishment (CDC, FDA, the vaccine manufacturers and others) as well as big pharma's political foot soldiers, Bill Frist and Dick Armey come to mind, who are the subject of my ire.

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Population and Development Review: Bentham on population and government. (social theorist Jeremy Bentham)(Archives)@ ...(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

Excerpts from the writings of social theorist Jeremy Bentham are presented.

He also cautioned against promoting population growth and limiting emigration, since a society would benefit from an influx of productive workers.

The English social theorist and reformer Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) is known to many only for his dictum that government should seek "the...

Our hearts go out to the rescue workers in New York and those coping with the loss of a loved one.

Though we grieved along with the nation, we attempted to continue to fulfill our obligation to friends of EWI, releasing a special issue of The Theorist discussing the socionomic underpinnings of the today's environment.

In each issue of this award-winning newsletter, Bob Prechter and the world’s leading Elliotticians present thought-provoking evidence of Elliott waves in financial markets, in nature and in our lives.

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Amazon.com: Books: Accidental Theorist: And Other Dispatches from the Dismal Science(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)

For several years, Paul Krugman, author of The Accidental Theorist and one of the most celebrated economists of the '90s, has been punching holes in fashionable ideas such as the logic of supply-side economics and the evils of globalization.

The essays in this book reflect a clairvoyant and playful mind that's patient enough to unravel and simplify--not dumb down--the arcane and lofty ideas of economics to something that the rest of us can understand.

In the introduction to 'The Accidental Theorist', Paul Krugman states his ambition to do for Economics what Carl Sagan has done to Astronomy - to serve it to the intelligent public without the specialized vocabulary and the math - to popularize economics.

One of the first openly lesbian Chicana writers, Anzaldua’s book of poetry and prose, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza was named among the best 100 books of the century by Hungry Mind Review and Utne and one of the best 38 books of 1987 by Library Journal.

Civil rights activist, theorist, and professor Angela Y. Davis called a collection of published interviews with Anzaldua (Interviews/Entrevistas) “impressive,” offering the reader “a sustained look at Gloria Anzaldua’s insistence on theorizing the personal and on infusing the political with the poetic — words that have shaped feminist theories and practices over the last two decades.”